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Pommer sprints to victory at Paul Ricard

German takes second F2 win ahead of Tuscher and Zanella

Markus Pommer secured his second Formula Two win of the season
with a superb lights-to-flag drive during today's (Sunday) second
race at Paul Ricard.

In sweltering conditions, the 21-year-old got a great start from
pole to pull out a small gap over second-place Mathéo Tuscher and
maintained it throughout the 19-lap race to take the chequered
flag. The Swiss racer came home second to round off an impressive
weekend for the teenager after his maiden win yesterday and now
closes the gap to championship leader Luciano Bacheta. Third place
went to Christopher Zanella ahead of Kevin Mirocha with 22-year-old
Bacheta completing the top five.

Pommer got away cleanly as the lights went out to lead from
Tuscher, with Mirocha getting ahead of Zanella to take third and
Bacheta and Mihai Marinescu both getting the jump on Dino
Zamparelli. The Brit was determined to retake his position though
and came very close to re-passing the Romanian in the opening few
laps.

At the front, Pommer was maintaining a 0.7s lead over Tuscher
while in the midfield Axcil Jefferies was leading a three-car
battle for the final points spot. By the halfway stage Pommer had
now stretched his lead to more than a second and importantly out of
Tuscher's reach in the Boost Zones.

Zanella then moved up to third after getting past Mirocha up the
inside of the chicane with Zamparelli finally getting ahead of
Marinescu at the same corner following their lengthy duel. Bacheta
also closed in on Mirocha in the final stages but at the front
there was no stopping Pommer who now moves up to fourth in the
championship standings, just three points shy of Zanella.
Meanwhile, Tuscher's second place helps the 15-year-old cut the
deficit to Bacheta to 32.5 points with two rounds (four races) of
the season left to play out.

Outside the top five, Zamparelli finished sixth from Marinescu
with Daniel McKenzie battling his way back to eighth place. Ninth
place went to Plamen Kralev with the Bulgarian claiming his first
points finish of the season with Axcil Jefferies ending 10th and
his fifth successive top 10 position.

Speaking afterwards Pommer said: "The win feels really good!
Everything went well. The car felt good and so was my start. The
tyres were great too and it was a fantastic race. Tuscher was
quicker than me on the opening few laps but then I was able to pull
out a gap and I just drove really smoothly until the end of the
race. It's a great result for my championship and now I can fight
for second place."

The Formula Two drivers now have a six-week break until the next
rounds which take place at the Hungaroring, Budapest, on 7-9
September.